SustainTour - Capacity Building of VET providers in the Sustainable Tourism

"The SustainTour project aims to upskill VET teachers and the human capital of the tourism sector in the Western Balkans. The project will focus on fostering the links between the tourism labour market and VET providers, promoting skills matching, developing their competencies in sustainable tourism, and integrating social, green and digital skills, in tourism-related VET curricula. The partnership’s vision is to create new opportunities for the tourism sector in the Balkan region. More specifically: a)Introduce a new occupational profile, the “Sustainable Tourism Advisor”, who will support SMEs in the Tourism and Hospitality sector on how to transform their businesses to become sustainable (responsible, green, social and digital). b)Develop a training course with the title “Sustainable Tourism Advisor” as a blended learning course, combining face-to-face and distance learning offered via online environments. c)Training of trainers in the methodology and the curriculum of the new profile in order to create a significant number of trainers in Albania and Kosovo. d)Develop a “Toolkit of Pedagogical Resources” & a “Digital Online platform"" for the Advisor. There will be a number of tools and diagnostics, that will support the advisor in identifying strengths and weaknesses in hospitality and tourism SMEs and how sustainability can improve them, and the acquisition of the above competencies for tourism SMEs. f)Create a Community of Practice to promote transnational cooperation of trainers and training institutes in the fields of vocational education and labour market towards sustainable transformation in the Tourism sector to enhance the project's impact and sustainability. g)Implementation of dissemination activities to promote the above competencies among trainers, facilitators, and trainees in Albania and Kosovo, in VET, for implementing the sustainable transformation in the tourism sector with a focus on hospitality."